Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.